sawed-off

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English

Pronunciation

Noun

sawed-off noun

A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.

Adjective

sawed-off adjective

Shortened by sawing.“The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.”
Short (as though something that should be there isn't).“He was a sawed-off runt, just a little guy, but he packed so much attitude into that little package that no one was going to make anything about it.”

Related terms

Synonyms

short pint-size pint-sized runty shortened sawn-off slittered shredded plainsawn chopped cutting scantlinged flat-sawn straight-cut scrimp bearded

Rhymes

sod off sawed off

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